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Making the familiar strange by laying bare the device, so perception wakes from automatized recognition into real seeing.
Like the Greek pharmakon, alienation is both the disease and the cure; sleepwalking past cup, pen and tree is the disease.
The image Shore uses for it, in our paraphrase.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
Literary language is special in announcing itself as language: it pulls attention toward the signifier, laying bare its devices, rather than acting as an invisible camera trained on the signified.
Put simply Shklovsky: the language of literature is special because it draws attention to itself as language and shows how it works. It points you to the words themselves, rather than acting as an invisible camera on the thing described.
Habit leaves us sleepwalking, recognizing things without seeing them; ostranenie, art's estranging device, shocks perception awake, "to make a stone feel stony."
Put simply Shklovsky: habit makes us sleepwalk, recognizing things without really seeing them. Art wakes us up by making the familiar strange, his "ostranenie" or estrangement, "to make a stone feel stony."
Shore lines up four versions of one shaking moment: Heidegger's being-toward-death, Shklovsky's estrangement, Husserl's reduction, Levinas's face-to-face. For Levinas the jolt comes from the other, not from death.
Put simply Shore lines up four shaking moments that reveal something fundamental: facing death (Heidegger), seeing the familiar as strange (Shklovsky), setting assumptions aside (Husserl), meeting someone face to face (Levinas). For Levinas, it comes from another person, not death.
1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
ShklovskyLiterary language is special in announcing itself as language: it pulls attention toward the signifier, laying bare its devices, rather than acting as an invisible camera trained on the signified. L10 · 27:25
ShklovskyHabit leaves us sleepwalking, recognizing things without seeing them; ostranenie, art's estranging device, shocks perception awake, "to make a stone feel stony." L10 · 29:27
Laying bare the device serves defamiliarization, waking us from automatized perception.
Terms that appear in the same claims.